My Tully's last agility trial was last August. Since that time, I haven't really been able to train. I think she's ran agility maybe twice since then, fun runs. She was surgically inseminated in October, had a litter of pups in December, lost most of the pups but raised one, was nearly strangled to death by my neighbor's dog 7 weeks ago, and was spayed 10 days later.

I ran her in an AKC trial today. She runs Excellent B, the highest level. She earned her first double-qualifying score, and a 2nd place in Standard. She was awesome! You'd never guess that it's been 6 months since she trained. (did have a little trouble with the start line stay in the first run, but I think she was just a little eager)

I'm so proud of her! I hope she passed some of that awesomeness on to her daughter, Tess.

Elmo was awesome too. His last trial was in October, he's not had much more chance at agility than Tully has, and was also badly injured recently. I didn't push him in today's trial, but he ran clean both courses. We went overtime on Standard because the table was so cold! Who could expect a Princess Boy Staffybull to lie down on it! (then the judge stopped counting when he propped one elbow up, which wasn't really fair, the other elbow was down) He had fun, and didn't hurt himself, which were my goals for him.

All of which proves that training is overrated! I'm never training again!

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Birdie says that she loves to work and train and her Mommy doesn't do it often enough for her tastes.

She thinks that it's disgusting that she has to throw her working collar and service vest in her Mother's lap during the winter to get her Mom to take her out to work. But she's glad it's spring so that we can work more.

Petey thinks it's unfair that Birdie gets to go out so much and will be glad when Daddy lets him play ball in the yard because he loves his ball.

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